WHYARE THE WHORES SHOUTING?

It is a stifl ing hot August day, and TV3’s midday programme is discussing whether prostitution should be abolished. (It still scares me to see the abolitionist turn that’s been taken in published opinion over recent years, when at the end of the last millennium we appeared, at worst, to be moving gently towards the labour regulation of economic/sexual exchange in Europe). In the studio today there is a sex worker and two other women whose involvement I don’t quite gather. I scarcely listen to fi ve minutes of conversation —if you can call it that. The two ladies don’t allow the guest whore on the programme —Cristina— to speak. I’m getting so annoyed that the temperature around me is raising, and so, in the end, I decide to mute the television.